gHacks Technology News | Latest Tech News, Software And Tutorials » drive icon http://www.ghacks.net A technology news blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:51:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 How To Change Drive Icons In Windowshttp://www.ghacks.net/2010/11/14/how-to-change-drive-icons-in-windows/ http://www.ghacks.net/2010/11/14/how-to-change-drive-icons-in-windows/#comments Sun, 14 Nov 2010 18:56:26 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/?p=36847 Windows users have two manual options to change the drive icons in the operating system. The first option makes use of an autorun.inf file placed in the root directory of the drive. The best way to create the file is to create a standard text document and rename it. It is then necessary to paste the following two lines of code in the text document, and change the path to the icon location on the hard drive.

[autorun]
ICON=path

This method is not that practicable especially for optical drives. The second available option is to configure the drive icons for all drives in the Windows Registry. Users need to navigate to the following Registry key:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\driveicons\

Driveicons may not exist by default. If that is the case create the key by right-clicking on Explorer and selecting New > Key and naming it driveicons.

It is then necessary to create another subkey that is named like the drive letter of the drive that should get a new icon. The path to the icon needs to be added as the value of the default parameter of the key.

Windows Drive Icon Changer

Many users may prefer a software to change the drive icons in the operating system. 7DriveIconsChanger is one of the applications for that task. The free portable software can change drive icons in all 32-bit and 64-bit editions of Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7.

change drive icon

The following steps need to be completed to change the icon of a drive or icons of multiple drives.

  • The program may need to be started with administrative rights
  • Select a drive letter, this will be the drive the icon will be changed for.
  • Click Browse Icon to select an icon on the local system.
  • Click Apply Icon to apply the icon to the drive

It is possible to restore default icons at any time by selecting a drive letter and clicking on Restore Default Icon.

]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2010/11/14/how-to-change-drive-icons-in-windows/feed/ 2 Windows Vista Drive Iconshttp://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/30/windows-vista-drive-icons/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/30/windows-vista-drive-icons/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2008 23:00:18 +0000 Martin Brinkmann http://www.ghacks.net/2008/01/30/windows-vista-drive-icons/ The tiny software Vista Drive Icon changes the drive icons in My Computer when running a previous version of Windows – like Windows XP, Windows 2000 and even Windows 95 – to drive icons that resemble those of Windows Vista. They are not the same but look nice and add a new function displaying the free and used space of the drive in a horizontal bar beneath the icon.

Just select a language and destination folder for the program files during installation and start the software afterwards. The drive icons will automatically be changed to Vista like drive icons. You can only see those however if you Thumbnails from the View menu.

What I like is that icons do change to red if the drive is almost full which gives you a great quick overview of drive capacities. I’m normally not running out of space but this could come in handy for some users who have at least one hard drive that is close to its storage limit from time to time.

vista drive icons

via Win Addons

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